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Gaming Industry

EA closes legendary RPG studio BioWare following its $55 billion buyout

Mass Effect 5 canceled as EA focuses on new shooters, sports games, and The Sims
Ripple effect: BioWare fans have repeatedly feared for the studio's future ever since EA acquired the company nearly 20 years ago, and those fears intensified after last year's announcement of a Saudi-led leveraged buyout. Although BioWare hadn't released a hit title in 12 years, its early successes helped define the RPG genre, and fans likely still held high hopes for the next Mass Effect entry.
Full story By Daniel Sims, 26 comments
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Apple Mobile

iPhone Duo roundup: Apple gets the hardware right, but is it worth $2,000?

Apple's long-awaited foldable is off to a strong start. Reviewers agree that the iPhone Duo gets much of the hardware right, with a polished design and an impressive folding display. But for $2,000, it remains a first-gen product with compromises, and one that will struggle to convince most iPhone users to make the jump.
By Ivan Franco,
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Security The Web

Two web emergencies in one week: guessable certificate keys and critical PHP bugs that leaked before patches

Browsers patched one problem remotely. Servers will need to be fixed by hand.
A hot potato: Security teams are dealing with two separate emergencies this week, and both go straight to the foundations of the web. The first is a certificate authority that shipped private keys anyone could guess. The second is a pair of critical PHP flaws that leaked before patches existed. Browsers fixed the certificate problem within hours. Everything else, from Linux servers to Docker images and IoT gear, needs someone to log in and patch.
Full story By Julio Franco,
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Gaming Drivers

Nvidia GeForce drivers add support for Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery

Nvidia's latest Game Ready driver adds support for Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, which aims to reduce shader compilation stuttering by delivering precompiled shaders for supported games, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day. As our recent testing shows, shader stuttering remains a major headache for PC gamers, but efforts to eliminate it are gaining momentum.
By Ivan Franco,
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Industry AI

Trump tells data center companies to make financial deals with local communities

Previous attempts to win over residents with cash and discounts haven't always been successful
A hot potato: President Trump has said that data center companies should "make deals" with local communities to ensure the facilities aren't loathed by the people who live near them. He added that paying a "dividend" would help make the sites popular, though similar incentives haven't always worked in the past.
Full story By Rob Thubron, 12 comments
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Security The Web

Millions of routers can be hijacked over Wi-Fi thanks to a 16-year-old bug

Broadcom says it replaced the vulnerable code in 2018 and won't assign a CVE. The fix never reached the routers.
Why it matters: Chipmakers ship buggy code all the time, that alone isn't news. What makes WPSplinter stand out is that Broadcom apparently did issue a fix eight years ago, but that fix never reached the routers sitting in people's homes. Furthermore, the lack of a CVE kept the problem invisible to the advisories and patch pipelines that router makers and ISPs rely on.
Full story By Julio Franco, 15 comments
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Download of the Week Software

Update now: Hackers are exploiting Plex server vulnerabilities to install malware

Hackers are actively exploiting security vulnerabilities in outdated Plex Media Server installations to deploy cryptocurrency miners and proxy malware. Plex confirms widespread attacks against internet-facing servers, with the flaws allowing remote code execution without authentication. The vulnerabilities were patched in version 1.43.3.10861. Users running older versions are urged to update immediately.
By Ivan Franco,
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Security Gaming

A judge lets Denuvo subpoena Discord, Reddit, and Steam to unmask the cracker Voices38

The most hated DRM in PC gaming is asking a federal judge to unmask a pseudonym
Connecting the dots: Denuvo has spent the past few weeks trying to uncover Voices38's true identity. The mysterious cracker has been wreaking havoc on the company's notorious DRM and anti-tamper technology, and Denuvo is now turning to lawyers in a bid to unmask the skilled coder.
Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, 12 comments
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Hardware Gaming

Nvidia's RTX 6060 probably won't arrive until 2029, will be slower than the PS6

Memory shortages will keep delaying mainstream GPUs
Rumor mill: Rumors had already suggested that the AI business and related memory shortages would significantly widen the traditional gap between generations of Nvidia graphics cards. Now, the latest information suggests the situation could be even worse for upcoming mainstream GPUs, which probably won't match the performance of next-generation consoles.
Full story By Daniel Sims, 19 comments
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